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Machine Learning

Learning from Observations

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What is Learning?

• Herbert Simon: “Learning is any process by which a system improves performance from experience.”

• “A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”

– Tom Mitchell

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Learning

• Learning is essential for unknown environments,– i.e., when designer lacks omniscience

• Learning is useful as a system construction method,– i.e., expose the agent to reality rather than trying to

write it down

• Learning modifies the agent's decision mechanisms to improve performance

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Machine Learning

• Machine learning: how to acquire a model on the basis of data / experience– Learning parameters (e.g. probabilities)– Learning structure (e.g. BN graphs)– Learning hidden concepts (e.g. clustering)

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Machine Learning Areas

• Supervised Learning: Data and corresponding labels are given

• Unsupervised Learning: Only data is given, no labels provided

• Semi-supervised Learning: Some (if not all) labels are present

• Reinforcement Learning: An agent interacting with the world makes observations, takes actions, and is rewarded or punished; it should learn to choose actions in such a way as to obtain a lot of reward

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Supervised Learning : Important Concepts• Data: labeled instances <xi, y>, e.g. emails marked

spam/not spam– Training Set– Held-out Set– Test Set

• Features: attribute-value pairs which characterize each x• Experimentation cycle

– Learn parameters (e.g. model probabilities) on training set– (Tune hyper-parameters on held-out set)– Compute accuracy of test set– Very important: never “peek” at the test set!

• Evaluation– Accuracy: fraction of instances predicted correctly

• Overfitting and generalization– Want a classifier which does well on test data– Overfitting: fitting the training data very closely, but not

generalizing well

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Example: Spam Filter

Slide from Mackassy

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Example: Digit Recognition

Slide from Mackassy

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Classification Examples

• In classification, we predict labels y (classes) for inputs x

• Examples:– OCR (input: images, classes: characters)– Medical diagnosis (input: symptoms, classes: diseases)– Automatic essay grader (input: document, classes: grades)– Fraud detection (input: account activity, classes: fraud / no fraud)– Customer service email routing– Recommended articles in a newspaper, recommended books– DNA and protein sequence identification– Categorization and identification of astronomical images– Financial investments– … many more

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Inductive learning• Simplest form: learn a function from examples• f is the target function• An example is a pair (x, f(x))

• Pure induction task:– Given a collection of examples of f, return a

function h that approximates f.– find a hypothesis h, such that h ≈ f, given a training

set of examples

• (This is a highly simplified model of real learning:– Ignores prior knowledge– Assumes examples are given)

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

••

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

••

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

••

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

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Inductive learning method

• Construct/adjust h to agree with f on training set• (h is consistent if it agrees with f on all examples)• E.g., curve fitting:

• Ockham’s razor: prefer the simplest hypothesis consistent with data

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Generalization

• Hypotheses must generalize to correctly classify instances not in the training data.

• Simply memorizing training examples is a consistent hypothesis that does not generalize.

• Occam’s razor:– Finding a simple hypothesis helps ensure

generalization.

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Training Error vs Test Error

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Supervised Learning

• Learning a discrete function: Classification– Boolean classification:

• Each example is classified as true(positive) or false(negative).

• Learning a continuous function: Regression

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Techniques 20

Classification—A Two-Step Process

• Model construction: describing a set of predetermined classes– Each tuple/sample is assumed to belong to a predefined class,

as determined by the class label– The set of tuples used for model construction is training set– The model is represented as classification rules, decision

trees, or mathematical formulae• Model usage: for classifying future or unknown objects

– Estimate accuracy of the model• The known label of test sample is compared with the

classified result from the model• Test set is independent of training set, otherwise over-

fitting will occur– If the accuracy is acceptable, use the model to classify data

tuples whose class labels are not known

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Illustrating Classification Task

Apply

Model

Induction

Deduction

Learn

Model

Model

Tid Attrib1 Attrib2 Attrib3 Class

1 Yes Large 125K No

2 No Medium 100K No

3 No Small 70K No

4 Yes Medium 120K No

5 No Large 95K Yes

6 No Medium 60K No

7 Yes Large 220K No

8 No Small 85K Yes

9 No Medium 75K No

10 No Small 90K Yes 10

Tid Attrib1 Attrib2 Attrib3 Class

11 No Small 55K ?

12 Yes Medium 80K ?

13 Yes Large 110K ?

14 No Small 95K ?

15 No Large 67K ? 10

Test Set

Learningalgorithm

Training Set

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Techniques

Issues: Data Preparation

• Data cleaning– Preprocess data in order to reduce noise and

handle missing values

• Relevance analysis (feature selection)– Remove the irrelevant or redundant attributes

• Data transformation– Generalize data to (higher concepts, discretization)

– Normalize attribute values

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Classification Techniques

• Decision Tree based Methods

• Rule-based Methods

• Naïve Bayes and Bayesian Belief Networks

• Neural Networks

• Support Vector Machines

• and more...

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Learning decision trees

Example Problem: decide whether to wait for a table at a restaurant, based on the following attributes:1. Alternate: is there an alternative restaurant nearby?2. Bar: is there a comfortable bar area to wait in?3. Fri/Sat: is today Friday or Saturday?4. Hungry: are we hungry?5. Patrons: number of people in the restaurant (None, Some, Full)6. Price: price range ($, $$, $$$)7. Raining: is it raining outside?8. Reservation: have we made a reservation?9. Type: kind of restaurant (French, Italian, Thai, Burger)10. WaitEstimate: estimated waiting time (0-10, 10-30, 30-60, >60)

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Feature(Attribute)-based representations• Examples described by feature(attribute) values

– (Boolean, discrete, continuous)

• E.g., situations where I will/won't wait for a table:

• Classification of examples is positive (T) or negative (F)

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Decision trees

• One possible representation for hypotheses• E.g., here is the “true” tree for deciding whether to wait:

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Expressiveness• Decision trees can express any function of the input attributes.• E.g., for Boolean functions, truth table row → path to leaf:

• Trivially, there is a consistent decision tree for any training set with one path to leaf for each example (unless f nondeterministic in x) but it probably won't generalize to new examples

• Prefer to find more compact decision trees

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Decision tree learning

• Aim: find a small tree consistent with the training examples• Idea: (recursively) choose "most significant" attribute as root of

(sub)tree

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Decision Tree Construction Algorithm

• Principle – Basic algorithm (adopted by ID3, C4.5 and CART): a greedy

algorithm– Tree is constructed in a top-down recursive divide-and-conquer

manner• Iterations

– At start, all the training tuples are at the root– Tuples are partitioned recursively based on selected attributes– Test attributes are selected on the basis of a heuristic or

statistical measure (e.g, information gain) • Stopping conditions

– All samples for a given node belong to the same class– There are no remaining attributes for further partitioning – �

majority voting is employed for classifying the leaf– There are no samples left

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Decision Tree Induction: Training Dataset

age income student credit_rating buys_computer<=30 high no fair no<=30 high no excellent no31…40 high no fair yes>40 medium no fair yes>40 low yes fair yes>40 low yes excellent no31…40 low yes excellent yes<=30 medium no fair no<=30 low yes fair yes>40 medium yes fair yes<=30 medium yes excellent yes31…40 medium no excellent yes31…40 high yes fair yes>40 medium no excellent no

This follows an example of Quinlan’s ID3 (Playing Tennis)

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Example

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Tree Induction

• Greedy strategy.– Split the records based on an attribute test

that optimizes certain criterion.

• Issues– Determine how to split the records

• How to specify the attribute test condition?• How to determine the best split?

– Determine when to stop splitting

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Choosing an attribute

• Idea: a good attribute splits the examples into subsets that are (ideally) "all positive" or "all negative"

• Patrons? is a better choice

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How to determine the Best Split

• Greedy approach: – Nodes with homogeneous class distribution

are preferred

• Need a measure of node impurity:

C0: 5C1: 5

C0: 9C1: 1

Non-homogeneous,

High degree of impurity

Homogeneous,

Low degree of impurity

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Measures of Node Impurity

• Information Gain

• Gini Index

• Misclassification error

Choose attributes to split to achieve minimum impurity

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Attribute Selection Measure: Information Gain (ID3/C4.5)

Select the attribute with the highest information gain

Let pi be the probability that an arbitrary tuple in D belongs to class Ci, estimated by |Ci, D|/|D|

Expected information (entropy) needed to classify a tuple in D:

Information needed (after using A to split D into v partitions) to classify D:

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Information gainFor the training set, p = n = 6, I(6/12, 6/12) = 1 bit

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Example contd.

• Decision tree learned from the 12 examples:

• Substantially simpler than “true” tree---a more complex hypothesis isn’t justified by small amount of data

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Measure of Impurity: GINI (CART, IBM IntelligentMiner)

• Gini Index for a given node t :

(NOTE: p( j | t) is the relative frequency of class j at node t).

– Maximum (1 - 1/nc) when records are equally distributed among all classes, implying least interesting information

– Minimum (0.0) when all records belong to one class, implying most interesting information

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Splitting Based on GINI• Used in CART, SLIQ, SPRINT.

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Comparison of Attribute Selection Methods

• The three measures return good results but– Information gain:

• biased towards multivalued attributes

– Gain ratio:

• tends to prefer unbalanced splits in which one partition is much smaller than the others

– Gini index:

• biased to multivalued attributes

• has difficulty when # of classes is large

• tends to favor tests that result in equal-sized partitions and purity in both partitions

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Example Algorithm: C4.5

• Simple depth-first construction.

• Uses Information Gain

• Sorts Continuous Attributes at each node.

• Needs entire data to fit in memory.

• Unsuitable for Large Datasets.

• You can download the software from Internet

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Decision Tree Based Classification

• Advantages:– Easy to construct/implement– Extremely fast at classifying unknown records– Models are easy to interpret for small-sized trees– Accuracy is comparable to other classification

techniques for many simple data sets– Tree models make no assumptions about the

distribution of the underlying data : nonparametric – Have a built-in feature selection method that makes

them immune to the presence of useless variables

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Decision Tree Based Classification

• Disadvantages– Computationally expensive to train– Some decision trees can be overly complex that

do not generalise the data well. – Less expressivity: There may be concepts that are

hard to learn with limited decision trees

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Overfitting and Tree Pruning• Overfitting: An induced tree may overfit the training

data

– Too many branches, some may reflect anomalies due to noise or outliers

– Poor accuracy for unseen samples

• Two approaches to avoid overfitting – Prepruning: Halt tree construction early—do not split a node if this would

result in the goodness measure falling below a threshold

• Difficult to choose an appropriate threshold

– Postpruning: Remove branches from a “fully grown” tree—get a sequence of

progressively pruned trees

• Use a set of data different from the training data to decide which is the

“best pruned tree”

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Rule-Based Classifier

• Classify records by using a collection of “if…then…” rules

• Rule: (Condition) y– where

• Condition is a conjunctions of attributes • y is the class label

– LHS: rule antecedent or condition

– RHS: rule consequent

– Examples of classification rules:• (Blood Type=Warm) (Lay Eggs=Yes) Birds• (Taxable Income < 50K) (Refund=Yes) Evade=No

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Rule-based Classifier (Example)

R1: (Give Birth = no) (Can Fly = yes) BirdsR2: (Give Birth = no) (Live in Water = yes) FishesR3: (Give Birth = yes) (Blood Type = warm) MammalsR4: (Give Birth = no) (Can Fly = no) ReptilesR5: (Live in Water = sometimes) Amphibians

Name Blood Type Give Birth Can Fly Live in Water Classhuman warm yes no no mammalspython cold no no no reptilessalmon cold no no yes fisheswhale warm yes no yes mammalsfrog cold no no sometimes amphibianskomodo cold no no no reptilesbat warm yes yes no mammalspigeon warm no yes no birdscat warm yes no no mammalsleopard shark cold yes no yes fishesturtle cold no no sometimes reptilespenguin warm no no sometimes birdsporcupine warm yes no no mammalseel cold no no yes fishessalamander cold no no sometimes amphibiansgila monster cold no no no reptilesplatypus warm no no no mammalsowl warm no yes no birdsdolphin warm yes no yes mammalseagle warm no yes no birds

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• Example: Rule extraction from our buys_computer decision-tree

IF age = young AND student = no THEN buys_computer = no

IF age = young AND student = yes THEN buys_computer = yes

IF age = mid-age THEN buys_computer = yes

IF age = old AND credit_rating = excellent THEN buys_computer = yes

IF age = young AND credit_rating = fair THEN buys_computer = no

Rule Extraction from a Decision Tree Rules are easier to understand than large

trees One rule is created for each path from

the root to a leaf Each attribute-value pair along a path

forms a conjunction: the leaf holds the class prediction

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Extra Slides

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Learning agents

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Classification(Sınıflandırma)

• IDEA: Build a model based on past data to predict the class of the new data

• Given a collection of records (training set )– Each record contains a set of attributes, one of the attributes is

the class.

• Find a model for class attribute as a function of the values of other attributes.

• Goal: previously unseen records should be assigned a class as accurately as possible.

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Hypothesis spaces

How many distinct decision trees with n Boolean attributes?= number of Boolean functions= number of distinct truth tables with 2n rows = 22n

• E.g., with 6 Boolean attributes, there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 trees

How many purely conjunctive hypotheses (e.g., Hungry Rain)?• Each attribute can be in (positive), in (negative), or out

3n distinct conjunctive hypotheses• More expressive hypothesis space

– increases chance that target function can be expressed– increases number of hypotheses consistent with training set

may get worse predictions

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Using information theory

• To implement Choose-Attribute in the DTL algorithm

• Information Content (Entropy):

I(P(v1), … , P(vn)) = Σi=1 -P(vi) log2 P(vi)

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Information gain

• A chosen attribute A divides the training set E into subsets E1, … , Ev according to their values for A, where A has v distinct values.

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Performance measurement

• How do we know that h ≈ f ?1. Use theorems of computational/statistical learning theory

2. Try h on a new test set of examples(use same distribution over example space as training set)

Learning curve = % correct on test set as a function of training set size